“People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection (1990)
Tag: sex
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“The minute sex becomes of moral importance, horrible problems are created needlessly.” — Manuel Puig, The Art of Fiction No. 114, the Paris Review (Winter II 1989)
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“I think novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as the Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., A Man Without a Country
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“Sex is just politics with the clothes off.” — Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
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“Sex makes a man dishonest with himself, as is well known. I feared the slippery ambiguity of false feeling, of expediency, of things not being exactly true.” — Peter Carey, A Long Way From Home
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“The daily activities that contribute most to happiness are having dinner with friends and having sex. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Have more sex. Commute less.” — David Brooks, “What Me Worry,” Commencement Address, Indiana University (2013-05-03)
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“Dealing with the Hippie is generally straightforward. His childlike nature will usually respond positively to drugs, sex, and/or rock and roll, although in which order these are to be deployed must depend on conditions specific to the moment.” — Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
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“Maybe it is in the nature of those who are denied sex or do not have enough of it to be so preoccupied with the subject that they view everything else through its distorted lens.” — Nuruddin Farah, Knots
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“Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet